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by carlosrt 4437 days ago
There's ~3 hospitals in the USA that have transparent pricing.

If you're interested in disrupting healthcare the founder of The Surgery Center of Oklahoma has a blog on pricing transparency. http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/

Some additional resources:

Free Market Medical Association website. http://marketmedicine.org/members/ It lists all the resources and providers that provide transparent pricing.

The Pricing Healthcare Blog and Pricing Healthcare website is a crowd sourcing project where patients can input their medical bills and get the cash price of procedures in their area. (The CEO of Safeway started a company with Safeway's similar, proprietary, data, however they only sell the pricing data to companies with ~10,000+ employees).

The Self Pay Patient is a blog and resource for those that choose to self insure: http://selfpaypatient.com/

The Health Care Blue Book lists the price insurance companies have negotiated with providers: https://www.healthcarebluebook.com

Source: http://www.quora.com/What-health-care-providers-in-the-USA-o...